"They are a resource, to be cared for an cultivated as far as they can still give back. When the time comes they can't, then they will be discarded as nothing more than a tool. This is the means to an end and only a transition."
Dystopia imagined as an idealistic idea. A society where Darwinism and technocracy keeps survival going and where it is only a temporary stop. Knowledge is more of personal curse than a gift. Mankind had it's golden age, and it's gone now. Reminders of the old age are torn away, because sometimes, it's better to not know.